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To kick off our Golden Goal series, GARY THACKER looks at the Fernando Torres goal for Chelsea at the Camp Nou that caused Gary Neville to have an on-air orgasm. There are many reasons why certain goals are memorable. They can come in big matches, or be part of an ongoing rivalry between the goalscorer […]

Rubén Suñé was desperately looking for a way out. In 1984, two years after the curtain had fallen on his playing career, the former Boca Juniors captain sought to end his own life. Since hanging up his boots severe depression had tightened its grip on Suñé, as he was increasingly unable to imagine life without […]

Despite winning the first two league titles of the Premier League era, the 1994/95 season was disastrous for Manchester United based on the standards set in the two preceding campaigns. United lost their title to Blackburn Rovers on the last day of the season after failing to beat West Ham at Upton Park, a depression […]

EA Sports’ FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 and a Sony Playstation were my main presents for Christmas 1997 and I played it incessantly for months on end despite the dodgy game play. My go-to campaign of choice, especially when pulling all-nighters with friends at weekends and in school holidays, was South America’s CONMEBOL qualification. […]

Boca Junior’s stadium, affectionately known as La Bombonera, is one of the cathedrals of world football and in November 2015 was named as the best football stadium in the world by FourFourTwo magazine. If it isn’t on your bucket list, then it should be. However, you better hurry, as the future of La Bombonera is far from certain. […]

After several weeks of frantically checking the official website in search of tickets, we received the unwanted news: the game was a sell-out with entry restricted to season ticket holders and members only. I’d previously been assured by several people that tickets to 1. FC Union Berlin weren’t normally hard to come by but that […]

In the late 1970s / early 1980s Altrincham Football Club could easily claim to be the best non-league side in the English game, and looking back through history it isn’t a stretch to label them the greatest club never to have played league football. However, despite winning Alliance Premier League – the forerunner to the […]

The Beautiful Game in Greater Manchester is dominated by two teams who are arguably the best in the country at the moment: City and United. The Football League is also stacked full of clubs from the metropolitan county of approximately three million souls, including Bolton Wanderers, Bury, Oldham Athletic and Rochdale. FC United, founded in […]

Eighteen years ago I stepped into a small windowless room for a careers interview at the local college. The lady tasked with advising me asked about my future aspirations. “I want to be a football coach or a sports journalist,” I bullishly told her. “They are both competitive fields and your expected grades aren’t good […]

I’m constantly looking for ways to fill a hole left by my disdain for modern football. At the end of 2015 I came up with a New Year’s Resolution to visit at least one new football ground per month. In the end I managed just eight, ultimately failing in my quest, and I put that […]